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Still no baby news here. I had contractions most of yesterday and into the night but they never got closer together. They've been getting longer, though and a bit more intense and one contraction must have lasted three minutes! I kept expecting it to release but instead it kept building. Sigh. I'm just trying to stay busy and stick to my plan of "surrendering" the timing thing to God. So far, it's gone really well except for a few moments of struggle where I got incredibly irritated by the false labor. God has been so good to me, though and I believe he has blessed with me extra energy these past days and less aches and pains. I have felt real good today! I took the girls to the grocery store and we were singing and laughing together as we went up and down the aisles and I had an elderly man stop me and joke with me that I was "being too happy." Funny! I told him that yes, I had better calm down. :)

My next doctor appointment is this Thursday. If I haven't dialated at that point, then we keep waiting. If I have, then the doctor gave me the option of being induced as early as this Friday. Or, I could do it next week, probably on Wednesday, September 3 because that would work a lot better with Sam's schedule and then my parents will get here in time. However, I am wavering back and forth on the whole inducing thing. I had my water broken with both of my girls to get things moving along but part of me just wonders if I should wait it out this time and see if the baby will come on his own. I've never had the excitement of realizing it's "finally time" and going off to the hospital to have a baby. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I'll just take one day at a time and see how things go.

This afternoon, Aubrie and I are busy baking M&M and chocolate chip cookies. They are the best! Here's a pic of her, complete with a gatorade mustache. She loves baking with me and especially sampling the candy.